translator: right now putin is clearly suffering a defeat, but he can, of course, still kill very many people. if the west continues to support ukraine, his own defeat is indetec inevitable. a coup is possible and this has happened in russian history before, but at the moment, putin is able to project a fairly positive picture to the russian population. if he starts looking like a loser, then a coup is possible. joining me now cnn national security analyst and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall. steve, great to see you. appreciate it. you actually wrote a piece for the washington post that putin does fear a coup, but not by his oligarchs, not by the russian people, but by his fellow spies. is this sort of a live by the kgb, die by the kgb sort of